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J. R. BALEY.

HATGHET.

Patented Jan. 23, 1883.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPH It. BAILEY, OF WOONSOOKET, RHODE ISLAND.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 270,883, dated January 23, 1883,

Application mea April 24,1882. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, JOSEPH R. BAILEY, of Woonsocket, in the county of Providence and State of Bhode Island, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Hatohets; and I hereby declare that the following is a full, clear', and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification.

This invention has reference to an improvement in hatchets, axes, adzes, and similar implements provided with a cutting-edge and a head for driving nails, wedges, or other articles.

The invention consists in the peculiar and novel construction of the implement, as will be more fully set forth hereinafter.

Figure 1 is a view of a hatchet made after my present invention, showing the same se. cured to the handle. Fig. 2 is a sectional view of the same, showing the head and cuttingplate secured in the body or poll. Fig. 3 is an enlarged sectional view, showing the connection of the cutting-plate with the body or poll.

In the drawings, A is the body of the cntting-tool. It is made of malleable metal.

B is the eye, in which the end of the handle bis secured by forcing the same into the eye until it bears firmly on all sides and fills the eye, when the end is trimmed and the -two screws b' b are screwed into the handle from the upper and lowerends of the eye, so as to enter the handle at an angle and have the heads bear against the body of the tool, as is clearly shown in Fig. l. By thus entering the screws the wood of the end of the handle is enlarged andflrmly wedged,while the screws, traversing the grain of the wood atan angle, secure a firm hold on the handle and firmly and permanently hold the same in the eye.

O is a steel head, provided with the dowel D, which enters a hole made in the end of the body A of the cutting-tool. This head is secured by forcing the dowel D into a hole of slightly less diameter than the dowel with great pressure, or by the -blow of a powerful hammer; and the head is thus secured firmly without the use of a rivet, and without heat, as has been the case heretofore. In forcing the dowel into the poll or body, the body is supported in a suitable die, by which the metal around ,the hole is firmly held so as to prevent the splitting of the metal. The head and body are thereby so lirmly united that no amount of use will separate the same.

E is the cutting-plate, made of sheet-steel, and is insertedinto a groove formed in the body A, where it is secured by means of the rivets ff. lo secure a firm support of the upper edge of the plate E against the body in the groove, I 'prefer to give a slight taper to the rivet-holesj', so that in driving the rivets the plate will beforced firmly into the groove and its edge will rest against the body, metal to metal.

In the construct-ion of these tools the steel is not subjected to any heat, as no part has to be welded orsubjected to tire. All parts of the cutting-edge are therefore ofthe same quality of steel and of the same temper and uniform thickness. The cutting-plate is more efficient in use, as it enters the wood Inore like a chisel side, of a hammer-head, C, having its dowel D forced into said hole by pressure, and the blade E drawn firmly to its seat in the groove by means ofthe tapered rivetsf, substantially as described.

JOSEPH E. BAILEY. 

